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Journal ahbi's Journal: Google News legitimizes Neo-Nazi "news" site

Google News has now added the neo-Nazi white supremacist web site National Vanguard to their index of "legitimate news sources." Evidently explicitly racist websites are news, but blogs are not - unless they're Blogspot blogs, owned by Google.
Why has Google not made their list of "news" sources transparent? And, if Google can create separate categories for each country, does Google refuse to add a separate "Blog" category?

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